Political Quotes

“It is the policy of the U.S. Government to sign the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction as soon as practicable. That is a convention that has now been signed by some 129 nations, including every one of our NATO allies except Turkey and every other Western Hemisphere country except Cuba. It says we will sign it as soon as practicable. It does not set a deadline. Other nations far less powerful than the United States have said they can sign it, but we have not signed it. We have said that even though we are the most powerful nation history has ever known, we are not powerful enough to sign the anti-landmine treaty, but we wish other nations would. And we have encouraged other nations to give up their landmines, in laudatory fashion--nations nowhere near as powerful as we, nations that face a lot more threats on their borders than we. My son is a marine. He is a rifleman in the Marine Corps.”